Wichita eagle., 1887-09-09
RnAur1FUL BuRL1NaAME.

| Hon. NJ. NJ. Murdoch, editor of th
Wichita EAGLE and founder of tn
Chronicle, who, with his wife and tw'
children visited two or three days las
week in this city, spoke In the highes
terms of praise of the beauty of Burlin
game. After a stroll through our shaded
streets and visit to the city park Colone
Murdoch remarked to several citizens tina
be did not know of a town in the west TIT
equal of Burlingame In point of comforta
BILE, homelike appearance and beauty. Tht
Chronicle considers this very high com
pliment for Burlingame, coming as it doe!
from an intelligent, observing gentleman
who has travelled extensively in all of thu
| western states and territories. - Usage
County Chronicle.
Nestled by the margin of stream, in s
delightful little valley framed about BY
high but gently sweeping prairies whose
grassy swells, as far as the eye can reach
are dotted and adorned with orchards and
homes and cultivated fields Burlingame Is
indeed. charmingly located. No restless
spirit of boom distracts her people OF
renders uncertain their daily business,
while her great number of pretty homes,
half hidden by the soft shadows of many
trees, suggest only peace and contentment.
Burlingame Is one of the Oldest cities In
Kansas, yet few people of the state or even
travellers as they are whirled
by on the Santa Fe, have any
idea of the sylvan beauty of a
town whose people seemingly have resolved
their ambition of making metropolis into
an earnest endeavor to make homes, In
which to contentedly live out this earthly
life. In strolling through Burlingame's
delightfully."- kept and beautifully shaded
broad public park one forgets that he is in
a state of red hot towns whose streets and
houses throughout the long summer months
radiate heat that glimmers in the unre
strained light OF blazing sun; forgets
even that In the fifties and sixties this same
Burlingame was lively station on the old
Santa Fe trail, over which once great road
rolled immense wagon trains, hauled by
oxen and mules, driven by half clothed,
dark skinned Mexican greasers, and that
the dust of her principal avenues was
kicked up in clouds by the heavy overland
stage coaches to which were hitched six
mules, these whipped up by an outrider,
the lines being held by a driver by the side
of whom sat an express mes
senger, armed to the teeth. The
great highway which stretched
its tortuous length from the Missouri across
plains and mountains to the haunts of the
Montezumas became the business street of
Burlingame, but its westward winnings are
lost amid the cultivated fields of a newer
civilization. The deep, wide well which
was dug the same year that the spot was
visited by the Hon. Arson Burlingame and
for him named, is as deep and pure and as
inexhaustable as ever, but many, very
many, of the men and the women who In
the days agone aspired and hoped and
worked for Burlingame, have joined the
silent majority. 1t might be possible that
from past associations and ten years init
mate experience with the life of the people
that we are not an impartial judge, but
with her we'll kept, clean streets and Sc
cluded retreats, her attractive lawns and
quiet homes and her hospitable and gen
erous hearted people there can be found
few places east or west to compare with
Burlingame as a place for home in all
that that word means.